Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 13, 1907

— The announcement is made that this year’s anarchist congress will be held in Amsterdam, July 26.

— Imprisonment for debt has more than doubled in England during the past twenty years, 11,427 debtors having been sent to prison in 1905.

— Guayaquil, Ecuador, experienced an earthquake shock June 1, which caused the bells to ring and stopped clocks, but owing to peculiar construction of houses did no material damage.

— Several thousand people in attendance at the Jamestown Exposition, on May 21 witnessed a successful aeronautic ascension. The air-ship was under perfect control, and sailed around over the buildings and grounds for twenty minutes.

— The Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri has been adjudged guilty of violating the anti-trust laws of Texas, convicted of having entered the State by fraud, and fined $1,623,900. The trial consumed three weeks in the District Court, and its conclusion is merely the beginning of the long legal struggle.

— St. Anthony’s Italian Catholic church of Youngstown, Ohio, has been completely looted of all furniture by the congregation, who have seceded from the Catholic Church, because the bishop ordered the priest to vacate the pastorate. They will build a new church for their priest, and install him with the effects taken.

— The latest proposition in the way of church entertainment was recently made by a Baptist minister of Philadelphia. He suggested to his congregation that the church should be surmounted by a roof garden, where a vaudeville show could be held in warm weather in order to attract men, women, and children to gospel services. Those present manifested their approval by subscribing $12,000 for the project.

— During the disorder incident to the labor trouble of San Francisco, a Japanese restaurant and a bath-house were attacked by the mobs. These incidents have aroused strong anti-American feeling in Japan, and the popular press of that country is demanding an apology from the United States government and reparation for damages. Latest reports indicate that as private individuals the sufferers from violence will sue the municipality of San Francisco, and so relieve the federal government of any complications with Japan. Yet the matter seemed sufficiently critical for France to tender to the United States her good offices in securing a complete understanding between the United States and Japan.

— Earthquake shocks were felt June 5 in San Francisco, in Pau, France, and in Guayaquil, Ecuador. No damage is reported.

— Prof. Adolph Miethe, of Germany, the inventor of the process of photographing colors, has succeeded in producing large artificial diamonds.

— Eighteen hundred persons have professed conversion as the result of four weeks’ meetings held in Petersburg, Va., by Evangelist George C. Cates, of Louisville, Ky.

— The authorities of Allentown, Pa., are investigating what seems to have been an attempt to burn the city. Four fires in three different sections were discovered almost simultaneously June 5.

— The Russian Duma seemed to be imperiled last week because of a resolution introduced condemning terrorism. If the Duma should condemn violence, it would lose the confidence of the people; but if it approved, the government would have ground for dismissal. The resolution was tabled by a vote of 219 to 146.

— The Irish bill recently introduced into the British House of Commons was unanimously condemned by a large representative convention held in Dublin, May 21. The prevailing sentiment of the meeting was home rule or nothing. In view of the opposition to this bill by the Irish people, and the antagonism of some members of the cabinet to granting any further concessions, it is not likely that this measure will be brought forward during the present session of Parliament.

— Unrepressed disorder exists openly in nine counties in the south and west of Ireland. The people demand that the vast grazing ranches shall be divided among them. Numerous prisoners charged with driving the cattle from the ranches have not been brought to trial, which has encouraged the peasants in their demand. There have been some clashes between tenants and peasants; and many graziers have within the past few weeks surrendered their lands to the demands of the people.

— The president of the National Association of Manufacturers called upon the members, recently assembled in annual convention at New York, for a fund of a million and a half dollars to be expended in fighting industrial oppression during the next three years. For years the individual members of the association have been against the unions, and the last president, David M. Parry, was a leader in the anti-union agitation, but this is the first time the association has considered the project of raising a large fund to fight the unions.

— The anti-dynastic outbreak in southeastern China has not been suppressed, and in several small places where the rebels have been victorious, the officials have been put to death or compelled to commit suicide. An engagement between the rebels and troops from Canton on the last day of May resulted in the death of 600 rebels; but although repulsed, they reassembled their forces. The center of the disturbance is Chao-chow, the district leased by Germany, which fact may result in German intervention by force, with the consequent assembling of the forces of other powers that are mutually pledged to preserve the territorial entity of the Chinese empire.